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Florida Heart Research Foundation Inc

Florida heart research foundation (fhrf) was established to accept funds from the sale of the "stop heart disease" spcialty license plate.

$309k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.8MScience & Tech$886kEducation$362k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $246,685, the rows itemized in this filing. The $309,039 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $62,354 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $227k
$51,685
Median grant
2
States reached
$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$175,000
MAYO CLINIC$51,685
MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%MAYO CLINIC: $191k → 9%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $187k → 11%FLORIDA CHAPTER OF ACC: $8k → 13%MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%MIAMI HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $216k → 15%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $120k → 19%MAYO CLINIC: $52k → 9%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $175k → 11%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER OF FLORIDA INC: $285k → 15%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $175k → 11%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER OF FLORIDA INC: $150k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 4 repeat orgs$591k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$2.6M
$344k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $247k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    University of Miami
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +87%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER OF FLORIDA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $435k · revenue +14%
  • FA
    FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $362k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • MH
    MIAMI HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $216k · revenue -9%
  • FS
    FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue +28%
  • FC
    FLORIDA CHAPTER AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Miami
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2
Florida International University Research Foundation Inc

The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…

Science & Tech
3
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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4
The Florida International University Health Care Network Inc

Fiu health care network's mission is to improve and support medical education at the fiu herbert wertheim college of medicine and provide clinical support services to the larger fiu community.

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5
University of Florida College of Nursing Faculty Practice Assoc Inc

Organized exclusively to support the service, teaching and research mission and goals of the university of florida and its j. hillis miller health center and the college of nursing.

Education
6
Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education
7
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
Florida International University Foundation Inc

To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the advancement of florida international university and its objectives (see schedule o for…

Education
9
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation

To raise funds to support mount sinai medical center of florida, inc., a not-for-profit acute care teaching and research facility, so that it may provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching,…

Health
11
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
12
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miami Heart Research Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Miami: $1,000,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $362,253 · EducationFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · EducationFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $765,592 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $175,000 · OtherFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDA…MAYO CLINIC: $51,685 · Other+2 more: $28,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER OF FLORIDA INC: $435,000 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL C…MAYO CLINIC: $190,729 · HealthMAYO CLINICMIAMI HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $215,915 · Philanthropy
Education$1,482,253Other$1,020,277Health$625,729Philanthropy$215,915

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Miami: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER OF FLORIDA INC: $435,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $362,253 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMIAMI HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $215,915 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $190,729 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFLORIDA CHAPTER AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Florida Heart Research Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florida Heart Research Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Florida Heart Research Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Florida Heart Research Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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